Last night we went to dance at our favorite dance club, and I won a first price with this Homemade Half Man Half Woman Halloween Costume. I spend lot of time to make it, but is really original. I cut trousers in half, that I got from the thrift store and sewed it a half … Read more
Every year my sister has a Halloween party and this year I wanted to go all out and stand out from all the store bought costumes. I went online and typed in Goddess, and a great pictured popped up which inspired me to be ‘Hindu Goddess Kali’. I used this picture enclosed to make my … Read more
This naughty forest nymph costume was made for the Elf Fantasy Fair in the Netherlands last April. First of all I have to admit, I bought the corset, but only because I didn’t have a pattern to make one. The idea came with the skirt. It was an old wedding dress that I used as … Read more
After making my six year old son’s Pteranadon costume, my three year old daughter decided her costume just was not as good as her big brother’s. She really wanted to be a Pteranadon too, so that she could be like her big brother. I had already fumbled through the making of a Pteranadon, so I … Read more
My Crazy Cat lady last minute Halloween costume was very easy and inexpensive. I went to thrift stores and that is where I found most of the cats and my outfit from. I found my hair accessories (I found clips with cats on them) at Walgreens and A Dollar store. I also found a few … Read more
We decided as a group of four to dress up as a “movie package” … box of popcorn, Coca Cola cup, Twizzlers, and the movie ticket. We used colored flat sheets for the beginning process. They were cut to fit and seams sewn together. We have a heat press in our basement and printed the … Read more
I made this Homemade Fed-Ex Princess Costume for my 6 year old daughter. I made it entirely from Fed-Ex shipping envelopes, Fed-Ex boxes, Fed-ex shipping labels and bubble wrap. For the “evening gown” top I cut a large Fed-Ex box in a scalloped pattern to fit my daughter, leaving the back cut vertically down the … Read more
I made this gross-ary bag costume for my little boy and he loves it. It took some time and hard work but we got it just the way we wanted it. It was very inexpensive and one of a kind. All you need is a box, some postage paper and some containers around your house. … Read more
Last year I went as a bath loofah; it was the best costume of the night! Everywhere I turned, people were rubbing? and scrubbing? up on me! I started with a green t-shirt from a craft store; Michael’s and Hobby Lobby have them for decent prices. I used tons and tons of safety pins and … Read more
I saw this great Homemade Bath Loofah Costume on your website and HAD to do it. I was going to do a different color but I love green! My husband went as a bar of soap (that was very easy to make). I bought an oversized green t-shirt and cut off the sleeves. I bought … Read more
Like most, I struggled to find a creative, non-provocative costume for a Halloween party I was attending this year. After walking down the aisles at a local store, I saw my inspiration for my costume: a clearance picnic basket. The most time consuming part of this DIY picnic Halloween costume was figuring out where to … Read more
The body and head of this homemade robot boy costume are made from cardboard boxes then wrapped with art paper to make the silver chrome paint more metallic. Head has a construction helmet (we duct taped the helmet in) making the inside fitted to head, eyes are plastic cups painted silver with lights inserted, mouth … Read more